The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center’s newest gallery, the Mollett Early Spaceflight Gallery, opens to the public June 18. The Hutchinson, Kan., museum’s newest gallery showcases manned space exploration efforts that began in 1959, including the flown Gemini X spacecraft, a flown Russian Vostok, as well as space suits used in the Mercury, Gemini, Vostok […]
Australia says “Good day mate” to Lancair
The worldwide reach of Lancair’s Columbia 350 and 400 has grown even more, with Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority granting a Type Acceptance Certificate for both models. The 350 and 400 also are available in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Four Winds adds airbags
Four Winds Aircraft has become the latest company to add airbags to its airplanes. The company just signed a deal with AmSafe Aviation of Phoenix to provide inflatable restraints as options on its FX-210 and FX-250T models. Certification of the AmSafe Aviation Inflatable Restraints is expected later this year. The restraints, which are built into […]
135+ Cirrus attend “Minnesota Migration”
More than 135 Cirrus airplanes returned to the roost for the third annual “Minnesota Migration” earlier this month. The annual migration to Cirrus Design Corp.’s factory, sponsored by the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association, boasted more than 300 registrants. In fact, the event has grown so much that many of the activities were held in […]
Legend Cub to go on tour
The latest company to take its product to the people is American Legend Aircraft Co., which plans a tour of its new Legend Cub. The demonstration tour begins at Missouri’s St. Charles County Airport, Smart Field, June 10-11, which coincides with the EAA’s Sport Pilot tour. Next stop is June 17-18 at Venago Regional Airport […]
Mooney racks up record sales and deliveries
The good news continues at Mooney Airplane Co., which reports that it had record new orders and deliveries for the first quarter of 2005. The Kerrville, Texas-based company recorded 13 new orders in the first three months of the year. It also delivered 20 aircraft, more than doubling its output from the first quarter of […]
Teaching the next generation
Recently I witnessed an exchange between father and teenage daughter. The daughter, a student in the inaugural class of Seattle’s Aviation High School, was begging her father to let her start her flight training now. She is 14. “No, not until you’re older,” he said. “I don’t want to spend all that money and have […]
Sport Pilot insurance is available to schools
Is sport pilot training insurable for commercial flight schools? Yes! (However there are some long-standing parameters.) This letter is in response to a recent letter regarding the insurability of flight schools conducting flight training for new sport pilots (Are commercial flight schools uninsurable? May 20 issue). First off, I could not agree more with the […]
Double take
While I realize the Accident Reports are published as an educational tool, I did a double take when reading about the accident involving the Cessna 182 in Hatton, N.D. (May 6 issue). The contributing factor to the probable cause was listed “delayed remedial action by the flight instructor and the tree” (emphasis added). Ronald R. Redpath […]